School board elections, a new jail and ethics top County Commission agenda
The Shelby County Commission is scheduled to vote on changing or restructuring school board elections to put all nine seats on the same ballot. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Commissioners start the last year of their four-year term of office Monday, Sept. 9, with a trio of controversial topics: moving school board elections, building a new jail and putting a county ethics commission back in operation after years in limbo.
The body of 13 agreed at their Aug. 13 meeting on setting term limits of two consecutive terms for all nine Memphis-Shelby County Schools board seats, starting with those elected in the 2026 elections.
But they delayed any vote until Monday’s meeting on the more politically volatile companion question of changing or restructuring school board elections to put all nine seats on the same ballot.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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